Applicator.



No. 706,732. Patented Aug. l2', I902.

A. W. ELLINGTON.

APPLICATOR.

(Application filed Aug. 7, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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ALLEN WV. ELLINGTON, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

APPLICATO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 706,732, dated August12, 1902 Application filed August '7, 1901. Serial No. 71,233. (Nomodel.) 7

To [LZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALLEN W. ELLINe-roN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State ofCalifornia, have invented a new and useful Applicator, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to instruments or devices for applying medicineor healing agents to internal portions of the human body, andparticularly to devices of this general character constructed to retainand apply the contents thereof; and some of the objects of thisinvention are to provide such devices which will be simple and cheap inconstruction and at the same time positive and effective in operation.

Another object of the invention is to provide a suitable vessel ordevice to receive and retain a healing agent and capable of beingsterilized While containing such agent and to construct the same with anozzle or extension to facilitate the application of the agent to thepart to be treated.

A further object of the invention is to provide a vessel or receptacleconstructed to discharge the contents thereof.

It is also an object of this invention to produce an applicatorconstructed to preserve and carry an absolutely-sterilized unguentum.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists,essentially, in the construction, combination, and arrangement of parts,substantially as hereinafter more fully described in the followingspecification, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, formingpart of this application, in which Figure 1 is a side elevational viewof aform of receiver provided with the improvements, showing theclosing-plug removed; and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal central section ofthe construction illustrated in Fig. 1, showing the nozzle without theperforations shown in Fig. 1.

Similar characters of reference designate 7 corresponding partsthroughout both views.

Referring to the drawings, the invention is illustrated as applied to areceiver or retaining device of substantially cylindrical form, whereofone end is Wedge-shaped or flattened and the opposite end isfrusto-conical; but this invention is not limited thereto, as the sameis merely typical of one form of receiv ing and retaining vessel ordevice to which this invention may be applied.

The reference character 1 designates a receiving or retaining vessel ordevice which may be of any preferred form or construction that may befound desirable in practice; but that here shown is preferably providedwith a wedge-shaped or flattened bottom or end 2, and said vessel ispreferably constructed from soft or pliable material. The extremity ofthe end 2 is preferably secured within a longitudinal slot 3 of theshank 4: of an attachment provided with an eye or handle 5, whereby thesame may be operated so that by rotating the attachment the extremity ofthe end 2 will be wound thereupon by reason of the softness orpliability of the me terial from which the vessel is constructed,thereby discharging the contents of the vessel slowly and regularly, aswill be readily understood.

The top or upper end 6 of the vessel 1 is preferably inclined orfrnsto-conical and desirably terminates in an extension or nozzle 7,substantially as shown in the drawings, which is preferably interiorlyscrew-threaded, as shown in Fig. 2, to receive the exteriorscrew-threads upon the solid shank 8 of a plug having a milled annularflange 9, substanti'ally as illustrated. By means of this constructionthe nozzle 7 is smooth upon the outside thereof in order to create noirritation or injury to the membrane of the human canal or duct intowhich the nozzle is introduced, and the length and size of the nozzlemay be varied according to the size of the canal or duct to be treated,and after being used the plug 8 may be screwed into the nozzle and thedevice boiled to sterilize the same. If found desirable in practice, thenozzle may be provided with apertures 10 to permit the lateral dischargeof the contents of the device 1 directly againstthe walls of the canalorduct to be treated. ,7

The operation of the invention will be readily understood from theforegoing description when taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawings and the following explanation thereof: The vessel or device 1is filled with the medicine or healing agent desired and is closed byiuscrtin g the screw-threaded plug into the nozzle 7, as shown in Fig.2, and when it is desired to use the contents thereof the screw-threadedplug is removed and the nozzle 7 is introduced into the human canal orduct to be treated, whereupon the attachment 4 is rotated, therebyforcing the contents of the device out through the nozzle 7,

a portion thereof escaping laterally through the apertures 10 therein.

It will be understood that the frusto-conical top or end 6 of the vesselor device 1 serves to limit the distance the nozzle enters the duct orcanal to be treated.

his not desired to confine this invention to the specific construction,combination, and arrangement of parts herein shown and described, andthe right is reserved to make all such changes in and modifications ofthe same as come within the spirit and scope of the invention. 1

1. An applicator provided with an internally-screw-threaded nozzle, topresent a smooth exterior to the parts-treated, anexternally-screw-threaded plug therefor, said nozzle having lateralorifices, an attachment having a longitudinal slot to receive theextremityof the applicator and constructed to be rotated to wind saidextremity thereupon to expel the contents of the applicator through saidnozzle and orifices.

2. An applicator provided with an internally-screw-threaded nozzlehaving a smooth exterior to present a smooth surface to the parts intowhich the nozzle is introduced, said nozzle having lateraldischarge-orifices and a plug having an enlarged head or cap and anexteriorly-screw-threaded shank constructed to enter and engage saidinteriorly-screwthreaded nozzle and close said orifices, Whereby theapplicator can be submerged in a sterilizing agent to cleanse the samewithout injury to the contents.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name i to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALLEN W. ELLINGTON. Witnesses:

AMELIA GUEST, M. G. EsHMAN.

